Chapter 669: Overcast sky, cherry blossoms bloom. (6,000 words)

Mihawk had no intention of stopping at this winter island...

His next planned stop was Twin Capes. He had heard from Red Hair that there was an old ship doctor from Roger's pirate group there.

Mihawk has been sleeping on the seat of the boat this time. His cervical spine seems a little sore, so he wants to ask the old ship doctor of One Piece to give him a massage to loosen up his muscles.

However, just when I was feeling sleepy, I discovered two old friends I hadn’t seen for a long time on the shore of the winter island…

"You have been missing for almost ten years..."

The coffin-little boat was parked at the shore, with a candle lit at each corner of the hull. The various underworld styles were quite consistent with Mihawk's cold and elegant temperament of a vampire aristocrat.

Mihawk landed gracefully, walked in front of Robin and 'BIB', and took in the view of the Medical Snow Kingdom from afar, "I didn't expect that you would live in seclusion on a winter island like this."

No one responded for a long time...

Mihawk gave Robin a strange look.

Robin also looked at him.

Mihawk: "..." Why does it feel a bit strange? "BIB" said: "We didn't expect that you were riding in this boat all the way? It's a bit inefficient..."

"Low?" Mihawk smiled slightly, pulled out the black knife, casually slapped it horizontally in the direction of the sea behind him, and amazing power poured out, rumbling, and suddenly raised huge waves tens of meters high on the sea surface... Boom, boom, layer after layer of waves rose and fell, hitting the coast, and the small coffin boat that Hawkeye parked on the shore was a little bumpy. He put the black knife back to his back, crossed his arms and said casually: "Such a knife is enough to push back and sail far..."

"You really are rowing a boat with a knife..." the black armor said to himself in a daze.

Mihawk: “…”

I was demonstrating the power and efficiency of my casual slashing skills, so why do you think it's like rowing a boat with a knife?

Can this be described with a simple word "stroke"? The world's greatest swordsman is still very calm. Mihawk smiled calmly and looked at the still heaving sea in the distance. "I heard Shanks talk about an interesting boy he met in the East China Sea a long time ago... Calculating the time, that boy named Monkey D. Luffy, if it is true as Shanks said, it is about time for him to go out to sea."

"BIB" was speechless, "The world's greatest swordsman traveled all the way, climbing the Upside-Down Mountain or the Red Earth Continent, just to meet a fledgling pirate?"

Mihawk said calmly: "I have lots of free time anyway..."

That's true. 『BIB』 agrees.

The Lone Ranger Mihawk is truly a man who feeds the whole family with his own food, especially since he is a Shichibukai with legal qualifications to plunder... In terms of reputation and strength, he has long been among the world's top masters. With such conditions, it is difficult for him to not be idle.

After chatting for a while, Mihawk took a last look at BIB and Robin, "I have been standing here for so long, but I don't feel the presence of other masters on this island..."

"Because there really isn't." "BIB" said calmly.

"Where is your real body, Lynch?" The eagle-like eyes stared at the narrow and slightly bright eyes on the black mask.

"It's a long story, do you want to listen?"

"I see..." Mihawk waved his hand, "It's too long. Let's go now!"

The world's greatest swordsman jumped lightly and landed on the coffin-shaped boat on the sea below. He shook off his black windbreaker, sat on the only large chair with his legs crossed, and carried the huge black sword that looked like a cross on his back, drifting away on the sea...

One man and one armor stood on the shore.

"BIB" lowered his head and asked: "Why don't you speak?"

Robin was slightly startled, shook her head and said, "At first I felt a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say..." After a pause, she continued, "Then when he talked about Tulip's son, he was a little absent-minded for a while, and before I could say anything, he left..."

This does seem a bit awkward. 『BIB』 crossed his arms and nodded silently.

Standing on the shore, Robin looked at the gray sky and sea, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long while, she turned around and said, "Go back."

A phantom-like figure in pitch-black armor walked beside her, stepping into the wind and snow of the entire island.

～～～～～～～～～～～ 【“Hey! Deer!”】

[When this island was still called Magnetic Drum Island, Lynch shouted to the snow monster passing by in the snowy forest, waving his hand, "Come here."]

[Beside him, Robin tilted his head, looking at the bewildered blue-nosed yeti with a bit of confusion and curiosity...]

…

[“Uwaaa!! Don’t eat me!!!——Huh? I can talk again…?”]

[The reindeer was scared to death, but Lynch asked with a smile: "How do you feel after you no longer have the Human-Human Fruit?"]

[In the snow, Lynch and Robin walked in front, and the blue-nosed snow monster followed behind and muttered to himself: "It's like... an endless nightmare..."]

"ah!"

Chopper cried out, raised his head and sat up straight. The fur on one side of his cheek was wet with saliva, and there was a hoof print left on it.

"Are you awake?"

Chopper sat in front of the experimental table, sniffing his blue nose, it smelled so good. Looking back, there was a table of food on the table in front of Robin and Master Kuleha. Robin said to him, "It's just right, wake up and come eat together."

"Oh." The reindeer jumped off the chair, making a swish, swish, swish sound under his feet, and bounded to the dining table to eat with Robin and the master.

By the wall, "BIB" who was observing with his palm turned over put down his hand and looked at Chopper's laboratory table. Pink dust was coming out of the flask, and next to it, there were three bulging cloth bags with the mouths tied tightly.

Has the research left by the quack doctor Hiruluk yielded results? 『BIB』 wondered.

…

[Looking at the fawn licking the plate excitedly, Robin said: "When it said it was a monster, it didn't mean what it looked like after eating the Human-Human Fruit..."]

[Lynch propped up his chin, "I mean my blue nose! My childhood trauma was really tragic..."]

While eating, Robin noticed that Chopper was always looking at him, and he couldn't help but touch his face curiously, "What's wrong? Is there something dirty on my face?"

Chopper hesitated, shook his head, quickly slurped down his meal, and jumped off the table, "I'll continue my experiment!"

Jumping back onto the chair in front of the lab table, the little reindeer lifted his two feet off the ground and used his two little hooves to carefully prepare the materials and pour them into the flask according to the proportions... His expression was extremely serious.

～～～～～～～～～～～ In the Den Den Mushi castle, Robin did not go to the bedroom, but sat in the bright and spacious living room.

There are a lot of old junk on the coffee table.

Ten years ago in Wan Guo, Xiao Lu was stunned by Big Mom's domineering color, and many things in the castle were ejected. Later, those things were temporarily stored by Lynch behind a corresponding mirror in the mirror world.

Later, BIB implanted the Mirror Fruit into a passing tiger, turning it into a user of the Mirror Fruit. The ferocious tiger became as obedient as a cat in front of the black armor's domineering color, allowing the invisible hand to grab its tail and drag it into a mirror... BIB used the tiger's tail as a medium to enter the mirror world of the mirror, moved all the things out, and put them back into Green's Den Den Mushi Castle for safekeeping.

The main things in front of Robin are the souvenirs, couple shirts and the like that she and Lynch bought when they sailed on the resort island, the Chabaoile Archipelago, etc.

Very old.

It had been a long time since Robin took it out and put it in front of him to look at it carefully.

She reached out and gently touched the yellowed clothes and souvenirs, recalling a conversation she had with "BIB" a year ago.

…

[“You don’t have to stay with me like this…” Robin hugged his knees, sat on the shore, and said to himself in a daze, “Aren’t you afraid that I will misunderstand you? Are you supervising me?”]

[‘If you really misunderstood, you wouldn’t say it so easily.’ The man in black armor stood beside him with his arms folded, his narrow eyes gleaming, ‘But I am indeed afraid of something, but that is the other side…’]

[“If you want to practice with your true self and prepare for a breakthrough, then don’t look at me all the time. You should be more focused…” Robin buried his head in his knees and talked to himself. Suddenly he reacted, raised his head and asked in astonishment, “What aspect?”]

[‘…’ the pitch-black armor said calmly, ‘I have never been separated from the main body for such a long time. Although we essentially share the same system, when separated, we are indeed two independently operating CPUs.’]

[『What I’m afraid of is… I will slowly forget, or gradually stop accepting, the fact that I’m Lynch.』]

[『Even if this worst-case scenario is just groundless worry... but, if all these years of experience and memories are poured into the main body's mind, and if these images are full of a large number of unfamiliar things... what will happen to the main body due to such a shock?』]

[Robin was even more stunned for a moment, and the narrow eyes under the dark mask looked towards her.]

[『So, Sister Robin, you are all I have now... Only by looking at you like this can I use you as the "anchor" of my self-awareness.』]

["Only then can I always remember that I am still me, still Lynch."]

[Robin smiled for the first time in a long time. Although the smile was very faint, she said to herself: "Don't let Hancock know about this..."]

…

Just as he was lost in thought, a white fluid emerged from the coffee table in front of Robin, which was covered with miscellaneous items, and condensed into the shape of a small green object.

Knock, knock, knock! Someone is knocking on the door of the Den Den Mushi castle outside.

Robin opened the castle door and looked out, and saw Kuleha's "huge" old face.

The latter saw her show up, picked up the bottle and took a sip, pointed at the dim night and the faint snow outside the window behind him, and said with a grin: "There are some good things, do you want to go and see them together?"

Robin was puzzled and jumped out of Den Den Mushi Castle.

Following Kuleha out of the tree house, the white snow looked particularly bright under the night and the cold moonlight.

Not far away, Chopper's figure running away can be vaguely seen.

"Where is he going so late?" Robin asked curiously.

Kuleha blew at the bottle and said with a chuckle, "Just follow and take a look, and you'll know."

“…”

Robin and Kuleha walked side by side in the snow at night, following far behind the reindeer that were running away.

She looked back at the night sky above the tree house.

The Observation Haki could sense that the pitch-black armor was sitting cross-legged in mid-air as usual, silently practicing the return of life.

The narrow eyes on the visor lit up with a faint light, as if it had sensed something. It raised its eyes and looked into the distance. The reindeer quickly climbed to the middle of the mountain, and without stopping, it stepped on the mountain cable and rushed up.

From afar, under the faint moonlight, it looks like the silhouette of a reindeer running through the air towards the palace on the top of a towering mountain...

～～～～～～～～～～～ 【“I can’t keep calling you ‘Hey’ or ‘Deer’, can I?”】

[Lynch said jokingly, "There are too many things that can be called 'feed' and 'deer'..."]

[Robin smiled and explained for the bewildered little deer: "He said that you should be given a name."]

…

There was a full moon in the night sky, and the black silhouette of the reindeer was running on the cable, slanting upward as if walking into the air.

Ta-da, ta-da. Chopper, who had transformed into a reindeer, was biting a wooden pole in his mouth and carrying his usual medical bag on his back. His four hooves kept galloping along the cable, his eyes fixed on the royal palace castle on the top of the mountain ahead.

…

[“Just call me Pikachu! How about that?”]

[Lynch clapped his hands and smiled with self-satisfaction, "Pikachu. Chopper, sounds good, right?"]

[“Pikachu… Chopper… Pikachu, Chopper… Hehe…”]

[The little guy raised his head, his big eyes fluttered and sparkled, and he covered his mouth and kept laughing.]

…

Huff, huff…

The reindeer kept panting as it came to the front of the royal castle. The wind and snow were howling. It loosened the wooden pole it was biting in its mouth, and its body shook, turning into a two-meter-tall, burly young man with short brown hair.

He touched his ears which looked no different from those of humans, took a deep breath, and roared at the quiet palace castle in the night: "Is anyone there?!!! - I'm Chopper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

…

[Chopper looked closely and saw that there seemed to be a small hole in the air, and two very small people were sitting on the edge of the hole...]

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

[Lynch greets: "Hi, Pikachu."]

[“Eh?!” Chopper jumped up on his chair again in fear, his antlers and eyeballs almost flew out. ]

[Lynch laughed at the castle entrance. Robin pinched his face and said, "Lynch, don't scare it like this."]

…

The palace and castle were suddenly brightly lit, and many soldiers rushed out in a hurry, frightened by the deafening noise.

King Dalton also hurried out in his pajamas. He panted and looked at the burly young man standing in the open space outside the castle with doubt. "Doctor Chopper, it's so late, what's the matter?"

"Huff, huff..."

Chopper took a deep breath, and his body shook, turning back into a petite and cute half-human, half-deer form. With tears in his eyes, he put down the medical bag he was carrying.

[In the snow, Lynch held a huge snowball that was almost as big as him and walked towards the little reindeer. Chopper was so scared that he rolled and crawled to hide behind Robin...]

[In the bathroom, Lynch and Chopper were soaking in the bathtub, with a towel hanging around their necks. Robin opened the door and brought them two cups of hot milk with a smile. Lynch and Chopper each took a sip, showing a satisfied expression in unison...]

"I want to ask everyone..."

The little reindeer shook his medical bag, and more than a dozen tightly tied cloth bags fell out of it. "Please do me a favor..."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's scary to make such a fuss in the middle of the night..."

Dalton smiled and said, "It's my duty! Doctor Chopper has been treating patients and saving lives for so many years, but he has always charged the lowest medical fees... We have actually wanted to repay you for a long time."

"That's right!" The palace soldiers raised their hands and responded enthusiastically with laughter, "As long as it's Doctor Chopper's request, there's really no way to refuse! Haha..."

"Brothers, let's get to work!"

“Oh~~!!”

A group of royal soldiers busily pushed out several mobile artillery batteries from the castle one after another in the night.

Under Chopper's command, they threw the dozen or so bags that Chopper brought into the barrel one by one...

"Doctor Chopper, is this all right?"

Soldiers stood behind the mobile guns, pointing their gun barrels toward the night sky.

"Well, that's good."

Chopper picked up the wooden pole he had carried along the way from the snow and walked towards the edge of the cliff.

Looking at the little reindeer's back that had once again become tall and sturdy, Dalton smiled and sighed softly.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “What on earth do you want to see?”

Robin followed Kuleha walking in the snowy mountains under the night sky, and asked worriedly, "Chopper, is he okay coming out so late?"

"laugh……"

Kuleha suddenly stopped and pointed the bottle at the sky ahead.

Robin looked up and naturally knew that it was the Medical Snow Kingdom, which was also the peak where the royal palace castle of the former Magnetic Drum Kingdom was located.

Suddenly, on the edge of the cliff at the top of the peak, she saw a black flag swaying. It looked a little blurry in the night, and the skull pattern on the black flag was also crookedly drawn with childish brushstrokes...

The crudely hand-painted pirate flag fluttered in the night.

It's Chopper...

Robin saw the burly figure waving the pirate flag vigorously on the edge of the cliff.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!

A large row of flames suddenly lit up behind Chopper, who was waving the pirate flag, followed by a burst of intensive cannon fire. Rays of flames shot up into the sky with shrieks, rushed into the high night, and exploded one after another.

…

[The little reindeer looked up and asked weakly: "Are you leaving?"]

[“Don’t try to get away with it by pretending to be pitiful and cute. Just follow the old woman and learn medical skills…” Lynch pressed Chopper’s head and continued, “If we find that your level is not up to par next time we come, we won’t let you on our ship.”]

[Under the rough hands, the little deer buried his head, bit his lips, and shed big, hot tears. Finally, he nodded heavily. ]

【"Um!"】

…

"This is……"

The ball of light in the night sky was reflected on Robin's face as she looked up. She slowly widened her eyes, as if she had seen some miraculous and magnificent scenery, and was deeply shocked.

"Hehe, it's really good stuff," Kuleha said, holding the bottle of wine with her hands on her hips, pushing up her glasses, and looking up with a smile, "I didn't lie to you, did I?"

"Um……"

Robin looked up in a daze, and was so shocked that he was almost speechless.

In the night sky, pink fireworks exploded one after another, and the pink dust attached to the snowflakes, instantly forming a fairy-tale-like pink snow scene...

“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…”

The burly figure desperately waving the pirate flag let out a strange, unique, yet childish cry, echoing across the mountaintops, cliffs, under the pink snow scene that looked like a huge cherry blossom tree, and between the snow-capped mountains...

"Robin!!!"

The burly figure who was crying loudly shouted to the people at the foot of the mountain in a boyish voice, "Didn't we agree on this? Wait for me..."

“…”

Robin looked up at the pink "cherry blossom trees" in the night sky that touched his heart.

…

[Chopper blinked and asked: "Giorno, what is a pirate?"]

…

"When I become..." Chopper waved the pirate flag vigorously and choked up, "When I become a qualified doctor... then..."

…

[“Well…” Lynch stroked his chin, “I always find it difficult to answer.”]

…

Looking at the child who was desperately waving the crookedly drawn pirate flag under the "cherry blossom tree", crying loudly and venting his grievances, Robin's eyes also welled up with tears.

…

[“This is the pirate flag.” Lynch pointed at the JOJO skull pattern and said with a smile, “Anyone who is summoned by this thing is a pirate!”]

[“Oh…” Chopper stared at the flag, his big eyes sparkling, “I see…”]

[Robin chuckled and said, "Don't you deny that you are a pirate?"]

[Lin Qi turned his head and pinched her face casually, "Don't ruin the atmosphere at a time like this..."]

…

"Take me with you..."

Chopper was crying like a human, tears streaming down his face. His hands were shaking as he waved the pirate flag. His sobbing voice echoed in the valley, "——Didn't we agree to be pirate partners together?!!!"

“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh…”

Listening to the hoarse crying sound like tears of blood in his ears, Robin's tears finally flowed down his cheeks and his lips trembled slightly.

Kuleha reached out her hand, gently patted and soothed her back which was also trembling slightly, without saying anything.

“Kureha…”

"It's okay, it's okay..." Kuleha had tears in her eyes. She took Robin into her arms and gently stroked her long hair. "Poor child..."

…

“I don’t know what happened, but I’m so moved…”

In front of the castle, the palace soldiers looked up at the miraculous and magnificent pink snow, and couldn't help shedding tears and looked at each other in confusion.

Dalton wiped his eyes and sniffed, "Yeah."

～～～～～～～～～～～ In the distant night sky, a huge pink "cherry blossom tree" almost illuminated half of the night sky...

From a distance, high in the sky above the tree house, the wind and snow were blowing.

Suddenly, in the seemingly empty air, a palm covered with blue flame patterns, like steel armor, condensed out of thin air.

Bang! "BIB" clenched his left hand hard, as if he had truly broken through some kind of shackles or barriers. His left hand suddenly solidified from its original ghostly state, like a real armored hand...

With a pair of narrow eyes shining brightly, 『BIB』 raised his left hand, and the palm covered with blue flame patterns instantly changed from virtual to real, and from real to virtual more than ten times, constantly changing...

It quietly admired and gazed at the "miraculous scene" left by Shilluluk.

(End of this chapter)